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![]() Think the title is long? Consider yourself warned: this boring movie never seems to end, meandering for nearly 2½ hours. Plus it commits the deadly sin of assuming that the viewer is familiar with the particulars of Jesse James’ early legend, without which the poorly told story has no narrative… |
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![]() The NY Times’ take on the banking crisis endgame gets reenacted in this made-for-HBO docudrama. Notwithstanding the Big Lie told in the middle, the movie otherwise seems to competently essay the mechanics of the fall of Lehman Brothers, AIG and the imposition of TARP. The Big Lie comes when t…
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Tim Geithner: Mr. Too-Big-To-Fail him...
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![]() The Iron Lady? More like the Rusty Lady. Meryl Streep’s uncanny performance as Margaret Thatcher doesn’t redeem this disjointed, disrespectful and disappointing biopic. The Iron Lady focuses on Baroness Thatcher’s dotage, complete with dementia induced hallucinations. It achieves some pow…
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Watch this and skip the movie.
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![]() Director Oliver Stone tried too hard with Alexander. It tried to be a monumental epic, but in the end just felt too long and drawn out, with too much inward facing drama and not enough about the battles between great armies and the politics it must have taken to conquer all those lands. It did h… |
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![]() For the most part, it wasn’t terribly engaging, despite the topic that is near and dear to our hearts. Until near the end of the movie, when Michael Shanon says the line: “We’re marines and you are our mission” when the trapped cops were worried their rescuers would leave. Then the drama of the … |
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![]() Ridley Scott’s big budget film about the famous Christopher Columbus was entertaining, but not as gripping as you’d expect from the 40M investment. The scenes, costumes, etc. were all very well done – but the movie suffers from being overly dramatic and one grows weary after an hour or so. Also… |
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![]() A Jesuit missionary trying to bring the Catholic faith to the Indians of “New France†(French-Canada) enlist the help of the Algonquin Indians to find a lost mission in the land of the Herons. “If the winter doesn’t kill us, the Indians might, and if they don’t the English will†– a…
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![]() Cravenly exploitative and sporting a bad title, The Eagle mostly lays an egg. While it’s kinda worth watching for hard-bitten war movie guys, slumming history buffs should steer clear. As one of those stories that starts where the legend leaves off, the history is tripe. Fortunately the prod…
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Great visuals of Roman-era Britain
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